I'm leaving within the next 24 hours for a Thanksgiving vacation that will take me until next month--so this is very likely my last blog...

...but I didn’t get a chance to post it here until now. Rather, I had the chance to. I just didn’t have the mindset to. Heck, I'm only...

And it seems so far, sad as it may be, my wishes are indeed impossible. The gifts my family got me weren't bad. In fact, a lot of them...